President Trump Says He Believes Cuba is Responsible for Recent Attacks on US Personnel in Havana

By Nathan Davis on October 16, 2017

President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell held a press conference in the White House rose garden on Monday. During the conference, President Trump said that he believes that Cuba is responsible for the attacks on diplomatic personnel at the United States embassy in Havana, Cuba.

“I do believe Cuba is responsible, yes,” Trump said.

The attacks on US diplomatic personnel were reported in August. So far 22 US citizens have been injured in the attacks, which are believed to have been caused by a supersonic device.

The Cuban government has repeatedly denied involvement in the attacks. “Cuba has never perpetrated, nor will it ever perpetrate attacks of any sort against diplomatic officials or their relatives,” said Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Rodríguez Parrilla.

There is some credibility to be idea that the Cuban government may not have been behind the attacks. In an interview with CNN, Steven Garrett, a professor of acoustics at Penn State University, questioned the motive that the Cuban government would have for perpetrating such attacks and their technical ability to carry them out.

“The Cubans are not known for sophistication in physical and engineering acoustics,” Garrett said.

President Trump has taken a decidedly more hard line stance against the communist regime in Cuba than his predecessor. Just before his election, then-candidate Trump said that he would reverse President Obama’s efforts to normalize relations with Cuba.

The people of Cuba have struggled too long. Will reverse Obama's Executive Orders and concessions towards Cuba until freedoms are restored.